Benjamin Franklin

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

That which hurts, also instructs.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

God helps them that help themselves.

you can do anything you set your mind to

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.